This 4-Year-Old Boy Has Mysterious Strokes That Leave His Doctors Stunned

His parents are begging for answers that could save their son.

Late this summer, 4-year-old Adam Lefkowitz started waking up with terrible headaches that wouldn't go away. After months and months of doctors' visits, MRIs and false diagnoses, things took a major turn for the worse.

One day, he started to limp and was paralyzed in one hand. His doctors claimed he was simply reacting to a previous procedure, but his mom wouldn't accept that explanation. She insisted on another MRI, and the results were shocking: Adam had suffered four mini strokes.

Little Adam was diagnosed with CNS Vasculitis, an extremely rare autoimmune disease that's also called primary angitis of the central nervous system, or PACNS. He has been undergoing chemotherapy and steroid treatment, but nothing is working, and he's still having terrible headaches.

He's had more than 15 strokes at this point, and is confined to a hospital room in Philadelphia. He can't move his legs or open his right eye, and he's gained 25 pounds from the steroids.

Meanwhile, Adam's doctors are trying to figure out the underlying condition behind the inflammation of the blood vessels in his brain. But despite all his pain, he still constantly asks his parents when he can go home and go to Chuck E. Cheese.

"Frustrating is not even the word," his mom, Dina, told the Daily News. "We're living in hell, really."

Courtesy of the Lefkowitz family

The New York–based family has set up a crowdfunding page and hopes to raise $50,000 to help pay for medical bills and travel costs. But in the end, all they can do is stay optimistic that their child will make it through.

"The doctors are trying everything they can. All we have is hope right now," Evan told Today.com. "We have to have hope."

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